, 1887-09-29
QUITE DlsINTEREsTEU.

Oncc more the Sun bobs up long
enough to make these remarks:
The Big Horn Sentinel, by offering to
publish the advertisements of land entry
men at So each, has brought down upoC
itself the wrath of the organs of the
Cheyenne land office, which are getting
so per notice. In Colorado these no
tices are published for So, and in Ne
braska for So. There are plenty of papers
in the territory which would be glad to
do the advertising at one-half the price
now taxed land claimants by the register.
We cordially agree with the last quoted
sentence of our contemporaries screed,
and we're we called upon to designate one
paper which would publish land notices
with hilarious alacrity at half price, we
should name the Sun, with the most
cheerful confidence that our faith in it
was not misplaced.
1t is a source of continual surprise to
us that papers which are governed by
such high moral principles as the Sun
and the Big Horn Sentinel should never
raise the ~faintest objection to the high
prices paid for advertisements until the
advertisements themselves are taken
away and given to other papers. Then,
and not till then, do they discover how
much cheaper the work might be done.
During the long years of the Republican
administration our esteemed contemporary
the Sun published land notices with re-
ligious regularity, but we fail to recollect
during the whole time that it raised its
hands in holy horror at the prices cheer
fully paid to it or that it at any time
insisted upon promptly returning the
entryman one.half of his money. In fact,
it is our vivid impression that it pocketed
its wealth without question and was more
concerned with increasing its patronage
than in reducing the net price Of the
same But now, alas things are differ
ent.
Are these prices then so o m for
the services rendered. They have not
been increased since the advent of the
Democratic administration and are pre-
cisely the same which the San has inva-
riably charged for 10. these many years.
As u matter of fact they are less than the
rates established by law and now charged
Tor legal advertisements by every newspa-
per in the territory. For the same
amount of space used during the same
length of time the legal rate would be Sl2.
The land notices cost so. What is
charged in Colorado or Nebraska forms
no criterion of what should constitute a
lust charge here. Everything is relatively
cheaper there than here and by no com
mon sense method of reasoning can we
conceive why the rate charged for adver-
Using should be made a solitary and unique
exception to the rule.
let our esteemed contemporaries get
down from their perchcs where they are
chattering like a pair Of magpies. They
should learn that envy is not conducive
TO human happiness, and in no code of
ethics can an underhanded action be con-
sidered honorable. If they had raised
objections to the prices Of land notices
mueu tIcy thclIseINes McIc puullsnlnR
them, while this might not be considered
as an evidence of business sagacity, they
would at least enjoy the distinction of be-
ing disinterested. As it is now, with
all the facts well known, they simply
make a patient public tired, like men
who have been thrashed in a fight and
insist upon the people sympathizing with
them.